[OpenWrt-Devel] 18.06 Bug: Baby Jumbo Frames on mt7621

[Jaap Buurman]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Levente <leventelist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try upgrading the sysupgrade image using your bootloader.
>
> Lev
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Mathias Kresin <dev at kresin.me> wrote:
>>>> 2018-05-25 12:48 GMT+03:00 Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Dear Martin, Mathias and the rest,
>>>>>
>>>>> Please scratch my previous message. It seems like the flash was not
>>>>> successful, and hence I was still running the old firmware. However, I
>>>>> have tried flashing 3 different times now, without any luck. The
>>>>> router ends up rebooting and boots right into the old firmware. This
>>>>> seems to be a major bug. Is there anything I can do to help debug this
>>>>> particular issue?
>>>>
>>>> First of all, Martin is right. The commit in my staging tree should
>>>> fix the MTU issue but I don't have the hardware to test it on my own.
>>>>
>>>> So far you never mentioned which board you have. Hence it's quite
>>>> difficult to have a look at the code about what could be wrong. It
>>>> would be helpful if you can name the last working revision to limit
>>>> the number of commits to look at.
>>>>
>>>>> Seems like a dealbreaker for 18.06 (which I am
>>>>> running now) to me. I could simply use recovery and flash a firmware
>>>>> like that, but I would prefer to get to the bottom of this issue so
>>>>> that end users won't end up stuck on a particular firmware. Any ideas
>>>>> what I could do to debug this?
>>>>
>>>> Your best bet is to attach the/a serial console and check the console
>>>> for errors.
>>>>
>>>> Mathias
>>>
>>> My apologies for leaving out important details. I am using a Dir-860L
>>> B1. I used to be running Lede 17.01.4, until last Tuesday. At that day
>>> I upgraded to OpenWrt 18.06-SNAPSHOT r6917-8948a78 via Luci. Flashing
>>> any other firmware seems to be broken now: I have tried flashing a
>>> build compiled from your staging tree, I've tried reverting back to
>>> 17.01.4 and I've tried reflashing 18.06. All end up in the exact same
>>> spot: Still on the OpenWrt 18.06-SNAPSHOT r6917-8948a78 with all
>>> manually installed packages still present. I've tried flashing via
>>> Luci and via the sysupgrade command (with the -v switch for more
>>> verbosity), but no useful information there. The last line that is
>>> output is simply:
>>>
>>> Commencing upgrade. All shell sessions will be closed now.
>>>
>>> One particular weird thing that I do remember on this build, is the
>>> fact that I tried to update all upgradable packages via OPKG (I know
>>> this is discouraged). One of those packages was "base-files". The
>>> upgrade failed with a weird error (can't remember what exactly), but
>>> nothing seemed wrong at that time, so I didn't really think much about
>>> it. Is there anyone more knowledgeable than me that knows whether this
>>> could influence the sysupgrade functionality?
>>>
>>> Lastly, I do not have a serial cable unfortunately, so I think
>>> debugging will be difficult for me. I could use recovery to reflash a
>>> fresh 18.06 build, and see if upgrade functionality is still broken in
>>> that case. I will report back with my findings.
>>>
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>
>>> Jaap Buurman
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> This just popped up on the Lede forum:
>> https://forum.lede-project.org/t/xiaomi-wifi-router-3g/5377/879
>>
>> So this might simply be a (mt7621 specific?) bug that prevents
>> sysupgrade from working properly. I am still awaiting his answers to
>> verify that he is indeed also running into the same issue where to
>> firmware won't upgrade.
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Jaap Buurman
>>
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I know how to fix the issue by recovery, however, from the responses
in the topic on the Lede forum it seems more people are running into
this issue. This definitely needs to be fixed before a 18.06 release.
Is there someone with a mt7621 device that can reproduce the problem,
and that has serial access? We might be able to figure out what is
going wrong.

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